Wonder Woman 1984 Gets a New Release Date

First, the “bad” news: The wait for the Wonder Woman sequel just got a little longer. The film’s superheroine star Gal Gadot confirmed on Twitter on Monday that Wonder Woman 1984, originally set to come out on November 1, 2019, has been pushed back to June 5, 2020.

The “good” news, however, is that, as Gadot says, delaying the much-anticipated, women-powered DC Comics production by seven months means it will return to its “rightful home”—summer blockbuster season, three years after the first Patty Jenkins–directed Wonder Woman dropped in June 2017. The “changing landscape” Gadot refers to is presumably a reference to the fact that Wonder Woman 1984 is taking over the plum summer release date formerly occupied by The Six Billion Dollar Man, the big-screen adaptation of the TV show, which has Mark Wahlberg attached to star but is still without a director. Gadot, Jenkins, and Chris Pine (even though, spoiler, he’s dead) all return for the sequel, and Kristen Wiig arrives as the villainous Cheetah (alias: Barbara Minerva).

Not to be petty, but is there something delicious about a woman-starring, woman-directed blockbuster casually sliding into the spot formerly held by (another) Marky Mark movie? Let’s just hope it’s worth the wait. Given the state of politics and society these days, we could really use a fierce feminist heroine in our lives.